Your Christmas connundrum, Doug? The machinery of capitalism perhaps? Like
Barry, I liked the arre coinage.
Bill
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 at 3:42 am, Barry Alpert <
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> Doug, It does assist in blocking formation of the phrase "we are we" which
> the 5 spaces between already indicates, but perhaps not for all readers.
> Within the last year I've come to expect rolling round robots "walking" in
> front of their owners on the sidewalks of 16th Street in downtown Wash DC.
> Barry
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:32:01 -0700, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Thanks Barry, but not a coinage, just a typo, alas (cant seem to help
> myself there).
> >
> >Doug
> >
> >> On Dec 20, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Barry Alpert <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Doug, I find myself intrigued by the syntax of your open and closed
> parentheses as well as your coinage "arre". Barry
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 09:48:14 -0700, Douglas Barbour <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> as if we were on
> >>> some interstellar ship
> >>> (we arre we
> >>> have been all our lives
> >>>
> >>> surrounded by alien
> >>> machinery it
> >>> hovers swoops
> >>> & does (we hope) much good
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Douglas Barbour
> >>> [log in to unmask]
> >>> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >>>
> >>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations &
> Continuations 2 (UofAPress).
> >>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >>> Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Swept snow, Li Po,
> >>> by dawn’s 40-watt moon
> >>> to the road that hies to office
> >>> away from home.
> >>>
> >>> Lorine Niedecker
> >
> >Douglas Barbour
> >[log in to unmask]
> >https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
> >
> >Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> >Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> >Listen. If (UofAPress):
> >
> >
> >
> >Swept snow, Li Po,
> >by dawn’s 40-watt moon
> >to the road that hies to office
> >away from home.
> >
> > Lorine Niedecker
>
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